[CLUE-Talk] Bug in Windows-operated toilet system

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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:07:31 -0700
"Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:

> This is too funny.
> 
> http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.20.html#subj2.1
> 
> [quote]
> I was at a press conference on Thursday with PalmSource at One
> Aldwych, which is one of those hyper-modern London hotels. One of its
> features is a airplane-style vacuum-operated toilet system. One of the
> Palm execs told me
> that while they were staying at the hotel this system failed, and any
> time they wanted to use the bathroom or take a shower they had to call
> the reception desk and get escorted to the corporate headquarters in
> the building next door to use the facilities there. For a couple of
> *days*.
> 
> It transpires that the entire plumbing system is run by a
> Windows-based computer system and whatever went wrong with it was so
> obscure that they had
> to get a technician from the company that supplied it on a plane down
> from Scotland to fix it and reboot.
> 
> The Blue Screen of Sewage?
> [/quote]

More like a Piece of Sh..


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